Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic
Church, and to beware of the doctrine of the
Britons and of false and heretical priests, coming
among them.[10] This same historian quotes from
other epistles of the same pope addressed to
bishops and dukes, informing them that one of the
reasons he had sent Boniface among them was to
win back those who had become the victims of
“heresy through diabolical craft.”
This leads to the consideration of Boniface
(originally Winfried), so often presented to us as
the apostle and founder of Christianity in Germany.
The quotation at the beginning of this chapter
notes, what any fair-minded reader of history
would find, that Columbanus and his successors
should be given the credit for the founding of
Christianity in the countries in which the credit is
usually given to Boniface. Unless one pays
particular notice, it will escape his attention that
Boniface was an Englishman brought up in
scornful hatred of the Celtic Church. Wilfrid,
another Englishman, must not be confounded with
Winfried. The first led the bitter opposition to
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